MacWWW

Last Edit: 10/01/17

MacWWW was the first web browser designed for the Apple Macintosh
platform - it was also the first browser that was not designed for
the Unix platform. The World Wide Web was developed in the late
1980's and was launched as an Internet service in 1991. The World
Wide Web is based upon a server-client model: client applications
(browsers) download web data from servers (computers connected to
the Internet). The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee,
and the first browser and web server software was designed on a
NeXT computer; which ran an operating system that was derived from
the Unix platform.

MacWWW was developed in 1992, and was designed by two people:

Robert Cailliau

Nicola Pellow

Robert Cailliau had played an important 'role' in helping Berners-Lee
author a proposal to raise funding for the World Wide Web project.
Robert Cailliau, like Berners-Lee, was a computer scientist employed
by CERN in the 1980's. Nicola Pellow was also a CERN employee, and
was a member of the CERN WWW Project.

The first web browser was WorldWideWeb and was designed by Berners-Lee.
WorldWideWeb was a basic greyscale web browser and could only display
text. Once Berners-Lee released the browser, Nicola Pellow ported
the browser so that it worked on a range of computer platforms.
The MacWWW browser borrowed heavily from the source code of the
WorldWideWeb browser and the ported version of the browser, named:
Line Mode Browser.

The MacWWW browser was released in December, 1992, and it was written
using the C programming language. As was the case with early web
browsers: MacWWW was discontinued when the Mosaic browser was released
in 1993.